Hello!

It's been a while and it's good to see that the community is growing. I compiled my project, but everything is black for some reason. There aren't any lights in the scene. I also tried adding a single point light but to no avail. Are there any other trouble shooting issues I can check?

I had that a few days ago. It was all good till I added a few lights and Sun.. suddenly I could only see one box, not even illuminated, the rest of the level disappeared completely in runtime. Not sure what's the problem though, I just opened the saved project without lights and continued.

Thanks. It seems that when add any type of script to the player. Not sure if the camera isn't set properly.

Could it be a direct X thing? I noticed that the game is fine when I don't attach a script, but my computer doesn't seem to run it well. I got some kind of crazy crash that said it waS INVALID WITH DIRECT X 9. The game seems to at least render when I don't attach a script in the map properties section. Not sure what this signifies.

Check your DirectX installation, it has to be newer than August 2009 (there are different builds of 9.0c).
There have been a few people before with black levels, I suggest you use the forum search or http://www.dejobaan.net/3DGS/a7oogle/.

I grabbed Direct X End User Runtime. I'm assuming its not what I need since the screen is still black? Where exactly is Directx 9 located? I'm searching Microsoft's site, but they seem to want to keep the program a secret.

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http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=8109

your video card and its driver are okay?

Ha ha Thanks!

It doesn't seem to work however. I have version 9.1974 I'm trying to install the Redist version as we speak. It seems to be an issue with the driver or video card. I've tried to run the sample project that came with A7 and got the same issue.

I have an ATI Radeon HD 2400. My computer is a dell vostro 200. I bought it in 2008. The funny thing is the drivers seemed to work fine on a previous version of G studio A7. Not sure if anything changed.

Is DirectX a new thing? I feel like A6 compiled on anything? Was A6's rendering Engine based on OpenGl?

I have tried it on a different laptop as well, but so far the screen is still black. I've also tried on Windows Vista and Windows 7 with a similar result. I'd be grateful for any help or insight. I have a pretty big presentation coming up which could kick off my professional game development career. I could get by on video, but it would be a shame if I can't see my work. Thanks to those that have chimed in thus far.

/pitiful plea.

your video card should be fine, maybe a driver update could help (which is not always true like in my case, for my old geforce card).

A8 uses the latest, or at least a newer update of DX9c than A7 used (e.g. my old laptop video card cannot run A8 - but in this case the screen is blue (or maybe different if you set it before level load) because DX surface is not even initialized). moreover, Microsoft did not give to DX updates new version name, maybe because they are funny people, or have financial problems

AFAIK no. Acknex was always DirectX.
But till version 5.24 it had supported Software Rendering too (so you need no 3D graphics hardware)

i would create a new empty project with no level. the screen should be blue. then i would load a level and check if it were displayed. so you could check if its a general problem with acknex and your video device or if its a problem with the project.
if you ask me, i bet its a problem with your project. i had a similar problem a few years ago. i updated A6.40 to A6.60 (while development) and the screen was black. if you know the engine version under that you´ve developed your project, try this version (it should be enough for a presentation).

do you use shaders in your project?

ps: i can not remember the cause of the problem